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“... generation and a bit of women, not just Bagnold (born 1889) but Rose Macaulay (born 1881) and Sylvia TownsendWarner (born 1893). This seems especially unjust when one of them successfully addresses, as Bagnold does in The Squire, the area where Woolf is weakest – engagement with the body, unintellectualised ...”

“... Time and Theatre Today, the journals on which I worked, were the happily idiosyncratic Communists Sylvia TownsendWarner, Edgell Rickword, Patrick Hamilton, Montagu Slater, Randall Swingler and, around them, particularly in nearby pubs, such friends as Nancy Cunard, Lennox Berkeley, Roy Fuller, John Minton, Dylan ...”

“... collecting which went back to Cecil Sharpe. And of Whitman, who had taken him ‘at the flood’. Sylvia TownsendWarner, another of Vaughan Williams’s composition students, had just completed her ‘Requiem’, a setting of Whitman for string quartet and voice and, fumbling towards her quite different eventual ...”

“... of feeling will do. Still, some writers and some texts respond to this treatment splendidly. Sylvia TownsendWarner’s little-known 1936 historical novel, Summer Will Show, forms the basis for an elaborate revision of Eve Sedgwick’s ‘homosocial’ model for the classic novel plot (basically, women as means to ...”

“... bookshop; Patrick Hamilton and some others became inconsolable drunks; to be cheerful a moment, Sylvia TownsendWarner, an old comrade of Amabel’s whom I once took over to see her again, found imagery and setting for the total breakdown of 20th-century belief and system, and made of them her 14th-century Corner ...”